Linda Birgitta Sembrant (born 15 May 1987) is a Swedish professional

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who plays as a

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for Italian

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club

Juventus FC )''I Bianconeri'' (The White and Blacks)''Le Zebre'' (The Zebras)''La Signora Omicidi'' (The Killer Lady)''La Gheuba'' (: The Hunchback) , founded = as Sport-Club Juventus , ground = Juventus Stadium , capacity = 41,507 , owner = Agnelli ...

and the Sweden women's national team.

Club career

Sembrant began playing football with SK Servia, then progressed through the youth system of

Bälinge IF Bälinge IF is a sports club from Bälinge, 10 kilometres north-west of Uppsala, Sweden. Background Bälinge Idrottsförening was established on 15 March 1936 and is currently active in men's and ladies' football, cross-country skiing, floor ...

. Although her role model while growing up was the striker

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, Sembrant became a defender. Linda Sembrant and Marta

Sembrant spent the 2006–07 off–season playing in

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with Lincoln Ladies (then known as Lincoln City Ladies). She then moved to

AIK AIK Fotboll (), more commonly known simply as AIK (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning ''the public'' or ''general sports club''), is a Swedish football club competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The ...

in 2008. In November 2010 Sembrant switched to Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC, after becoming captain of AIK. One year later she moved to

Tyresö FF Tyresö Fotbollsförening is a Swedish football club in Tyresö, a municipality in Stockholm County. The club was founded in 1971 and is primarily known for its main women's team, which competed in the top-tier league Damallsvenskan in the 2010� ...

. In 2012 Sembrant was part of the Tyresö team who won the Damallsvenskan championship, but she missed the end of the season after suffering an

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. Tyresö suffered a financial collapse during the 2014 season, withdrawing from the league and letting all their players go. Sembrant secured a lucrative move to French club

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. In July 2019, Sembrant moved to

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to sign with defending

champions

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International career

Sembrant represented

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at all youth levels, then won her first senior

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against

in February 2008. She was withdrawn from the Sweden squad for Euro 2009 through injury. In 2011 Sembrant was called up to Sweden's squad for the

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in Germany. She retained her place in the national selection for the

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. On the occasion of Sembrant's 50th cap, she scored Sweden's goal in a 1–1 draw with

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. The friendly match was staged in Los Angeles in November 2014. Sembrandt scored against

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at the

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, the opening goal in a 5–1 win.

International goals

Matches and goals scored at World Cup & Olympic tournaments

Matches and goals scored at European Championship tournaments

Honours

Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC *

Svenska Cupen Svenska Cupen (, ''The Swedish Cup'') is a knockout cup competition in Swedish football and the main Swedish football cup. Svenska Cupen usually refers to the men's tournament, although a women's tournament is also held. Each year 96 teams compe ...

: 2011 Tyresö FF *

Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...

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Juventus *

: 2019–20,

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, 2021–22 *

Supercoppa Italiana The Supercoppa Italiana ( en, Italian Super Cup) is an annual football match contested by the winners of the Serie A and the Coppa Italia in the previous season. If the same team wins both the Serie A and Coppa Italia titles in the previous seaso ...

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Sweden *

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Silver Medal:

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Personal life

Sembrant lives together with Italian footballer

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in a same-sex relationship.L-Mag.de: Das sind die 59 lesbischen Stars der Fussball-EM 2022 (German)
July 2022

References

;Match reports

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Linda Sembrant
at statsfootofeminin.fr * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sembrant, Linda Living people 1987 births Footballers from Uppsala Swedish women's footballers Sweden women's international footballers Expatriate women's footballers in England Notts County L.F.C. players Expatriate women's footballers in France 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics FA Women's National League players Olympic footballers of Sweden Tyresö FF players Damallsvenskan players Juventus F.C. (women) players BK Häcken FF players Montpellier HSC (women) players Bälinge IF players Swedish expatriate women's footballers Swedish expatriate sportspeople in France Swedish expatriate sportspeople in England Women's association football defenders Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in football Division 1 Féminine players FIFA Century Club 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Expatriate women's footballers in Italy Serie A (women's football) players Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Italy UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players Swedish LGBT sportspeople LGBT association football players Lesbian sportswomen 21st-century LGBT people UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players